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What's the point of having var when they blow the game dead on close offside decisions. Surely let them play then use var if need be. Unless they're clearly off

01-17-2018 , 04:32 PM

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can you bump/link the numbers? - sorry if I didn't spot them earlier itt

I think it's from a UEFA report that features all kind of stats, but anyway here's a daily fail writeup

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...mpression=true

Walcott not having played at a World Cup is amazing. Injured in 10 and 14 I assume?

01-17-2018 , 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by royalblue

I think it's from a UEFA report that features all kind of stats, but anyway here's a daily fail writeup

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...mpression=true

~I'm too lazy tonight, but someone could figure out the #ofattendees/game and then the #ofattendees/game/headofpopulation

my eye test is that the Dutch and the Portugese (esp in Lisbon and Porto) take football srsly, the Germans do their bit and no one else really gives a toss.

1. Premier League
England 13,607,420
2. Bundesliga
Germany 12,703,896
3. Championship
England 11,086,368
4. La Liga
Spain 10,621,000
5. Serie A
Italy 8,377,860
6. Ligue 1
France 7,965,940
7. Bundesliga 2
Germany 6,652,134
8. Eredivisie
Netherlands 5,840,316
9. League One
England 4,373,496
10. Primeira Liga
Portugal 3,622,428

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01-17-2018 , 04:38 PM

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Batshuayi doesn't seem to be keen on a transfer if tonight's performance is anything to go by.

01-17-2018 , 04:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Hoopie1

Batshuayi doesn't seem to be keen on a transfer if tonight's performance is anything to go by.

Isn't this kind of thing more likely to get him sold? [albeit at cut-price rates]

01-17-2018 , 04:59 PM

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Isn't this kind of thing more likely to get him sold? [albeit at cut-price rates]

It won't convince anyone to buy him. Apart from maybe David Sullivan.

01-17-2018 , 05:06 PM

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Hoopie1

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I think Chelsea have cloned David Luiz.

01-17-2018 , 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Tall Paul

It's on total attendances isn't it? So the Football League, with its 552 games a season, is bound to compare favourably against leagues with 380 games.

League One's figures are going to drop off a cliff now we're not single handedly accounting for a large percentage of that figure. Would be even worse if Bradford and their ST deal got promoted

01-17-2018 , 05:17 PM

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This Norwich side hit the deck rather easily.

01-17-2018 , 05:17 PM

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sixfour

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As an aside Swans beating Wolves even though the visitors are playing a weakened line up is a bit of a surprise

01-17-2018 , 05:18 PM

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tchaz

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Originally Posted by Hoopie1

It won't convince anyone to buy him. Apart from maybe David Sullivan.

sorted

Carroll for BATman swap

01-17-2018 , 05:19 PM

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sixfour

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Originally Posted by Hoopie1

This Norwich side hit the deck rather easily.

They were bloody awful in terms of petty fouls and time wasting in our first game this year. Kind of hoping this goes to extra time and they get someone sent off ahead of the away leg on Saturday

01-17-2018 , 05:19 PM

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I think Chelsea have cloned David Luiz.

so long as they haven't given the clone Brazilian nationality I'm superfine with this from an entertainment pov

01-17-2018 , 05:21 PM

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This Norwich side hit the deck rather easily.

Pedro doesn't play for Norwich

01-17-2018 , 05:23 PM

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Diving to win a penalty in a game where all penalty decisions are automatically reviewed is ... interesting.

01-17-2018 , 05:24 PM

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I think Chelsea have cloned David Luiz.

I'd hate to be the poor bugger who has to clean out the team bath plug hole

01-17-2018 , 05:25 PM

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sixfour

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Max Power getting all the assists for team boids

01-17-2018 , 05:34 PM

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tchaz

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I think Chelsea have cloned David Luiz.

duuuuuuoooohhh - sorry, you mean Amps?

he's one of our own

and is going to spark us into contention for FIFAWC2022QATAR

england dream on

01-17-2018 , 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Yippee ki-yay

What's the point of having var when they blow the game dead on close offside decisions. Surely let them play then use var if need be. Unless they're clearly off

Not sure VAR is there to do the referees actual job but more so to help them get the big decisions right. Nobody wants a video replay on every close offsides call.

01-17-2018 , 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by royalblue

Walcott not having played at a World Cup is amazing. Injured in 10 and 14 I assume?

Iirc he was somewhat controversially overlooked in 2010.

2014 might have been the year he did his acl in the 2-0 FA cup game v Spurs??

01-17-2018 , 05:44 PM

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Not sure VAR is there to do the referees actual job but more so to help them get the big decisions right. Nobody wants a video replay on every close offsides call.

No of course which is why I don't think it's gonna work. Because to get the big decisions correct you need to see the replays. Like in the Chelsea game, if they had played on Chelsea probably score. Var would have said onside. Goal... But they blew the whistle so the play was dead. So kind of a big decision which they got wrong.

I don't care about the decision, just concerned it's either gonna be fairly pointless as we know for a fact officials get loads of decisions wrong or gonna result in endless var reviews ruining the flow of the game if they implement this.

01-17-2018 , 05:47 PM

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@ re Feo

Sven should have brought him on in ET in 2006. That's the only decision of Sven I have as wrong/-ev over his whole England career. You brought the guy there exactly for this ... ffs now pull the trigger.

(I take not briefing about Ronaldinho's free-kicks as something on the GK coach - thought arguably a Wenger would have been attentive to even such micro details.)